* IPCC - the consensus on climate change

The United Nations created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 as a clearing house for climate science.

The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for addressing it. The IPCC does not carry out research itself but bases its assessment on peer reviewed and published scientific/technical literature.

Nobel Peace Prize

In 2007, the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize for: "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". They shared the Peace Prize with Al Gore. Watch the 9 min documentary about the IPCC on the Nobel website.